When in doubt, simplify. - Eric Ries

startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

It is insufficient to exhort workers to try harder. Our current problems are caused by trying too hard — at the wrong things.

Remember, planning is a tool that only works in the presence of a long and stable operating history. And yet, do any of us feel that the world around us is getting more and more stable every day? Changing such a mind-set is hard but critical to startup success.